The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute has announced the line-up of judges for the organization’s sixth Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge.
The panel of leading global design, manufacturing, and sustainability experts includes:
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Chris Uecker, Senior Scientist – Product Design and Development, Target
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Dr. Debbie Mielewski — Senior Technical Leader – Materials Sustainability, Ford Motor Company
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Emma Fromberg – Informal Education Programme Manager, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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Lewis Perkins — President, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
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Nora Sophie Griefahn – Co-founder, Managing Director, Cradle to Cradle Association
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Sachlene Singh — Technology Evangelist, Autodesk
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Stephen Leonard — Senior Innovation Leader, Growth & Insights, Arconic
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Stuart Constantine, Co-Founder, Core77
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Warner Philips, Cleantech entrepreneur & investor, Founding Board Member, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
Find out more information about our judges here
Submissions for the next Challenge are being accepted now through December 1, 2017 for four prize categories: Best Overall Project, Best Use of Cradle to Cradle Certified Material, Best Use of Autodesk Fusion 360, and Best Use of Aluminum.
This round of the Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge is the final competition in the Institute’s series of six challenges. The challenge is presented by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute in partnership with Autodesk and with support from Arconic Foundation. With a vision to educate, inspire and engage designers and students around the world to use regenerative design principles, and Cradle to Cradle Certified™ materials, to envision and design products for a circular economy, the Challenge has attracted over 400 design submissions from more than 450 designers in 30 different countries to date.
For more information or to enter the Challenge, visit C2CCertified.org/connect/design-challenge, or visit C2CCertified.org/connect/design-challenge-v-winners to view previous winners.
About the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to turn the making of things into a positive force for people, the economy, and the planet. It administers the Cradle to Cradle CertifiedTM Product Program, a guidance system for assessing and continually improving products based upon five sustainability characteristics: material health, material reuse, renewable energy, water stewardship and social fairness. The Institute is headquartered in Oakland and Amsterdam, NL. For more information, visit C2CCertified.org or follow @C2CCertified on Twitter and Instagram.